A USA Today and Publishers Weekly Bestseller A Library Journal Editor’s Pick An Edgar® Award Finalist for Best First Novel College student Joe Talbert has an assignment to interview a stranger and write a brief biography. With deadlines looming, he heads to a nearby nursing home. Carl Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran ? and a convicted murderer. Writing about him, Joe can’t reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict, and tries to uncover the truth.

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